"Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Atheist Quotes #Hate Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother's milk, objects for emotional bonds.”
“If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81
“The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.”

Source : Alexander von Humboldt, Aimè Bonpland (1852). “Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804”, p.415
“In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.”
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
“Simply unleashing our imaginations can be empowering.”
“Shakespeare, I come !”
“Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.”

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